Investigating Students’ Language Learning Strategies During Online Learning: How They Deal with Speaking Ability

Marlin Marlin,Audi Yundayani,Andang Saehu

doi:10.30762/jeels.v8i2.3262

Abstract

The pandemic situation shifted the learning process from offline to online. It challenges the students in English learning, especially in learning their speaking ability. However, the students manipulated the strategies by utilizing online platforms or mobile phone applications accordingly to their learning experience. This study investigates students' language learning strategies and how the strategy is applied in learning speaking ability. The case study was carried out in a senior high school. The respondents 64 were chosen purposively to be involved in this study. The instruments of data collection were conducted by questionnaire and interview under Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The results showed that 63 (95%) of students used metacognitive strategies in the form of centering learning process, arranging, and planning learning strategies. Moreover, 61 or 91% of students applied practicing, receiving, and sending messages of group cognitive strategies to motivate them to practice their speaking ability during online learning. Furthermore, less than 80% applied social, memory, affective, and compensation. It recommended that the teacher be a facilitator by providing a good stimulus for the students to motivate themselves to be self-regulated.

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Education in Indonesia recently is the condition impact of Covid-19, where all of the learning activities should be closed
The language learning strategies used by students to learn speaking ability during online learning
26 (39%) male and 17 (25%) female integrated involves reviewing well strategies to remember new English words using a pocket dictionary. These findings demonstrated that the students usually remember the new English words by utilizing imagery, representing the sounds, and repeatedly the English new terms of what has read and learned simultaneously by using Facebook, Instagram, pocket dictionary, or memo books to learn speaking skills during online learning

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Education in Indonesia recently is the condition impact of Covid-19, where all of the learning activities should be closed This case related to government regulations in Kepulauan Riau provinces, number: B/421/194/DISDIK/2020, about the implementation of distance learning and assessments, which include teaching and learning activities in the classroom at SMA/SMK/SLB for a while still being continue at home through elearning platforms bases to the existing condition and situations. It meant that all learning processes are continued through online learning, including teaching and learning English. The earlier studied by Yaniafari (2021) found that learning speaking by online learning decreased level of anxiety and more confidence to speak English than face to face learning

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